Let There Be Light: Works by Robert Hunter

Let There Be Light: Works by Robert Hunter
2025-11-14 | 12 Dodds Lane Rehoboth Beach DE 19971
November 7 through November 30, 2025 Opening Reception: November 7,
2025 (5pm-7pm) Ventures Gallery Bob Hunter is a Plein-Air Artist, who
can be found painting most days on and around the southern Delaware
seashore. He primarily works with oil paints, but is equally
comfortable working with other mediums such as watercolors, pastels,
and graphite pencils. The subject of his work varies widely from
coastal landscapes, boats, farmland, fields, valleys, rivers, and
figurative compositions. He is motivated by the visual experience, it
is paramount; it’s totally engaging – a singularity of purpose.
The subject and circumstance of the visual experience i.e.: light,
colors, and time constraints typically dictate which medium is used.
For example, if drawing a figure (or whatever subject), it’s the
light on and around a person or group that initially captures his
attention. The light becomes an aesthetic medium, element, a fabric
from which we weave the tapestry of our visual lives. “But it’s
the seeing thing that most interests me – the totality of the visual
experience are exciting things to watch and see. From that moment on
– seeing the shapes, form, and color interaction that manifest the
artwork. Should the light change (clouds come in or dissipate) or an
individual get up and leaves – well then the work if finished. My
work is a celebration of life. It is a sincere attempt convey
something unpretentious about what I see and experience… Plein-Air
landscape painting speaks directly to where I AM. The paintings I
create, quite simply depict a captured moment in time; an attempt to
be here now, it’s a sort of a Zen thing. I’m an observer… So,
the process of selecting a subject to draw or paint is largely
determined by chance circumstance. When the light is right, and the
spirit moves me – I paint. “Any framework, method, or label you
impose on yourself is just as likely to be a limitation as an
opening.” Venue: Rehoboth Art League.
